Mary Catherine Bateson (1939 - )

Mary Catherine Bateson is a US  writer and cultural anthropologist. Bateson is a noted author in her field with many published monographs. Among her books is With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, a recounting of her upbringing by two famous anthropologist parents. She has taught at Harvard, Amherst, and George Mason University, among others. Bateson is a fellow of the International Leadership Forum and was president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York until 2010. source: Wikipedia Bateson was once known as Dr. Spock’s first baby (he was her mother, Margaret Mead's pediatrician) and a product of “the best-documented childhood in the United States,” as she wrote in a memoir about her parents

Known for
With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (1984)

Thinking AIDS (1988) with Richard Goldsby

Composing a Life (1991)

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (2010)

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Wikipedia "An Anthropologist's Take on Homemaking," NY Times 2010